Would you want to know your expiry date?

 

We all have an invisible expiry date. None of us can avoid it.

So here’s the real question:

• If you could know the exact day you’ll die, would you want to?

• Or is ignorance better—just letting fate deal the cards?

 

Some argue not knowing is the only sane choice. If you had a date stamped on you, life would feel like a countdown to nothing. Every decision would be coloured by that ticking clock.

But the flip side is hard to ignore. If you knew, you could sort your life out properly—no wasted time, no wasted money, no unfinished business. You could live harder, take more risks, and squeeze everything out of the time left.

 

So which is it: live blind and hope for the best, or face the date head-on and use it to shape everything?

My expiry date is 2-3 years from now.

 

 

Absolutely....even toyed with the idea of choosing a date myself.

 

Divvy up the money so it runs out on the due date......then start kicking the **** out of the few years I have left.

It is my intention to live forever!

 

So far, so good!

 

 

I'd prefer the lottery numbers for the Powerball.

11 hours ago, BritManToo said:

My expiry date is 2-3 years from now.

according to what data? 

 

29 minutes ago, The Cobra said:

Would you want to know your expiry date?

No. Don’t even want to see it coming.

22 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My expiry date is 2-3 years from now.

IIRC you said that about 5 years ago.

11 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

according to what data? 

 

According to average life expectancy for my gender and nationality, I'll be carking it any time now.

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

According to average life expectancy for my gender and nationality, I'll be carking it any time now.

 

can be changed.

exercise, diet enhances certain gene expression.

15 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

according to what data? 

 

Actuarial tables showing life expectancy by year of birth https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2011/lr5a4.html

For people born in the 1950s it's 74, but nobody in my family has made it that long.

14 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Actuarial tables showing life expectancy by year of birth https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2011/lr5a4.html

For people born in the 1950s it's 74, but nobody in my family has made it that long.

Is that for death from natural causes?

A couple of days ago two women in Australia ,both in their thirties, were killed while trying to help an injured kangaroo and were hit by a car.

When your time's up.......etc

16 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

can be changed.

exercise, diet enhances certain gene expression.

Doesn't stop a truck hitting you.

13 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Got to be drugs

If that’s a must then you outta go out flying, get on some peyote and when ready, a handful of quaaludes or the equivalent of.

19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Actuarial tables showing life expectancy by year of birth https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2011/lr5a4.html

For people born in the 1950s it's 74, but nobody in my family has made it that long.

Doesn't work like that, expectancy at birth, once you are older already it moves up. Then again when you live very unhealthy it goes down.

11 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Actuarial tables showing life expectancy by year of birth https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2011/lr5a4.html

For people born in the 1950s it's 74, but nobody in my family has made it that long.

 

Yeah, true.

Actuaries are the sharpest tools in the shed when it comes to death because billions of dollars are at stake.

People should probably go see an actuary with their cholesterol panel - they would interpret it better than a doctor.

 

Doc says "you have 2 weeks to live".

Guy says "I can't pay my bills".

Doc says "you have 1 more year to live". 

 

2 minutes ago, novacova said:

If that’s a must then you outta go out flying, get on some peyote and when ready, a handful of quaaludes or the equivalent of.

 

 

Made a note.....cheers

6 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Doesn't stop a truck hitting you.

 

 

Oh dear.......what have you got planned for him?

2 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Doesn't work like that, expectancy at birth, once you are older already it moves up. Then again when you live very unhealthy it goes down.

Average length of a male claiming a UK pension is 8 years, which would make 74 exactly right.

Make plans as if you were going to live forever.

Live as if this were your last day.

I don't want to know the exact date, but wouldn't mind knowing what decade the end will be, for better life and financial planning.  

 

 

1 minute ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Make plans as if you were going to live forever.

Live as if this were your last day.

 

Do the first one, tried the second for a month at a time......nearly killed me each time.....555

Yes be good. Organise 3 women for the last week!

Irrelevant to me, as I try to live everyday, as it may be my last.  From some charts, life expectancy was 5 years ago.

 

From my work union, for my job classification, it was 65 & 11 months, as the average amount of pension check disbursements, was 11 months  

 

My father died at 69, younger than myself now, and mother, just made it to 74.

 

I'm much healthier than they were, since chain smoking Alkys, so I might make to 80.   One brother will hit 78 in Dec, me 71, and my cousin (mother's side) made to 84 or 85, I think.   Or, I could crap out in my sleep tonight.

 

Oh well  ... no regrets here, been retired for 25 years, and nothing really left on that reality bucket list to check off.

3 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Yes be good. Organise 3 women for the last week!

 

Why not now if that’s what you desire? 

 

My life wouldn’t changed much except with a final day on the calendar, I would for sure enjoy my life a lot more for every day I was sane and healthy. I wouldn’t try to max out life by living like every day was my last, as I did for a long long time in my younger days, still calculated and not doing much drugs or alcohol or to wild sex parties, even I had the opportunity to do so. Many of my friends lived like that, and many of them is not here anymore, and by time I learned to appreciate the small things in life, and not necessarily chase to big experiences on every day basis. 

late 2026 to Mid 2027 is mine.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

It is my intention to live forever!

 

So far, so good!

 

 

In exchange moderator for rest of your life? 

 

There is always a catch 😉 

45 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Average length of a male claiming a UK pension is 8 years, which would make 74 exactly right.

Average length

People. 

 

I strongly suggest we don't discuss any actual methods of ending it all.

 

Assisted suicide is not legal in Thailand and we really don't want the forum involved in any legal issues by "assisting" anyone.

 

EDIT After internal discussions some posts have gone walkabout.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Actuarial tables showing life expectancy by year of birth https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2011/lr5a4.html

For people born in the 1950s it's 74, but nobody in my family has made it that long.

But you cycle every day and don't live in isolation and report you're happy.. I'd be happy to bet you're here in 5 years time.  Probably 10.